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Lessons from 1994 baseball strike: How the past looms over MLB as it tries to salvage 2020 season

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Walt Weiss remembers the baseball strike of 1994-95 well. He hopes lessons were learned.

“As difficult as it is when you are in the moment, you have to think about the welfare of the game,” said Weiss, the former Rockies manager who played 14 years in the majors. “Anybody who’s in the game right now has to look at it like we are leasing the game and passing it on to the next generation. Whether you are an owner or a player or a GM or an agent or whatever, you have to realize that you are a caretaker.